8-letter words containing p, r, e, s, l
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- peerless — having no equal; matchless; unrivaled.
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- perclose — parclose.
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- petrosal — of, relating to, or situated near the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pilsener — a light Bohemian lager beer, traditionally served in a tall, conical, footed glass (Pilsener glass)
- plaister — plaster.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleurisy — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- polestar — Polaris.
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- pollster — a person whose occupation is the taking of public-opinion polls.
- popstrel — a young, attractive female pop star
- portless — a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- pre-loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
- pre-sale — a sale held in advance of an advertised sale, as for select customers.
- pre-sell — To pre-sell a product to promote it with publicity before it comes on to the market.
- prebasal — (in biology) located in front of a base, or in front of a basal part
- prebless — to bless beforehand, esp to bless a couple before they marry
- preclose — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- prelease — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- prenasal — a bone in the front of the nose
- presleep — of the period immediately before sleep
- preslice — to slice in advance
- presolve — to solve beforehand
- presplit — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- pressful — the quantity that a press can hold
- priestly — of or relating to a priest; sacerdotal: priestly vestments.
- prolapse — Pathology. a falling down of an organ or part, as the uterus, from its normal position.
- prostyle — (of a classical temple) having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.
- przemysl — a city in SE Poland: occupied by the Russians 1915.
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- psoralea — any plant of the tropical and subtropical leguminous genus Psoralea, having curly leaves, white or purple flowers, and short one-seeded pods
- psoralen — a toxic substance, C 1 1 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.
- purlieus — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- purseful — an amount which can be contained in a purse
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- pyrolyse — to subject (a substance) to pyrolysis.
- redilisp — R.M. Keller, U Utah. Dialect of Lisp used on the Rediflow machine, a derivative of FEL.
- repletes — abundantly supplied or provided; filled (usually followed by with): a speech replete with sentimentality.
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
- reptiles — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.